Kirsten Ellicson

BA, Brown University. Maîtrise en lettres modernes, Université de Versailles. MPhil, Columbia University. Pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole normale supérieure Lyon; instructor of literature humanities in Columbia University’s core curriculum. Specialist in 19th- and early 20th-century French literature and art, with an emphasis on the origins of literary modernity. Dissertation, “Disordered Collecting in French Literature 1880-1892,” explores the relationships between art collecting and literary decadence. Interests include literary representation of interiority, including madness, surrealism, and film. SLC, 2010—